Paul Davis Stephen Hawking BBC promo

By Why Not Associates.

Nokia 'Got mail'

Amazing work from London based Andersen M Studio. The stop frame animation for Nokia is just so unusual and rather conceptual than commercial.

Yves Saint Laurent | Men's Collection 2008/2009

Instead of a traditional catwork show, Colonel Blimp directors Sarah Chatfield and Chris Sweeney have created a series of films to promote YSL men's collection 2009. I think they are very beautiful and atmospheric and it's a more modern way to approach fashion shows I guess.

New York Times Magazine, J. Vallee

You should also check out his website, he does amazing work!

The kite runner titles

Beautiful typographic transitions!

Brands in the MOMA SF

A really nice film where one brand leads to another...

Warner Brothers Film Set (L.A)

Well, that was an interesting 'cultural' experience! We actually had the chance to drive through the film sets of Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Friends...
We learned that they employ people to remove the leafs of the trees one by one so that it can be winter in summer and than they reemploy them to put them back on the next day so that they can shoot spring! Also Central parc is just a corner of one film set and the rain drops are tripled in size so that they can be seen on TV and this is why the actors always get so wet so quickly!

The diving bell and the butterfly

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a translation of the French memoir Le scaphandre et le papillon by journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby. It describes what his life is like after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition called Locked-In syndrome. It also details what his life was before the stroke.

On December 8, 1995, Elle magazine editor-in-chief Bauby suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma. He awoke 20 days later, mentally aware of his surroundings but physically paralyzed with the exception of some movement in his head and left eye. The entire book was written by Bauby blinking his left eyelid, in July and August of 1996. A transcriber repeatedly recited a French language frequency-ordered alphabet (E, S, A, R, I, N, T, U, L, etc.), until Bauby blinked to choose the next letter. The book took about 200,000 blinks to write and an average word took approximately two minutes. The book also chronicles everyday events for a person with locked-in syndrome. These events include playing at the beach with his family, getting a bath, and meeting visitors. The French edition of the book was published in March of 1997. It received excellent reviews, sold 150,000 copies in the first week, and went on to become a number one bestseller across Europe. Ten days after the book was published, Bauby died of pneumonia.

The book had touched me very much and I was very intrigued when I saw that the film was coming out because I could not imagine how you could possibly film these memoires.
In the end I was very impressed by the film as it is shot from the victim's perspective which makes you feel his difficulties and his attemps to speak and live.

film- persepolis

It is very interesting to see a political film transmitted through very simple hand drawn animation. This particular film tells the story of a childhood during the difficult years in Iran. But the anonymous hand-drawing makes it relevant for any fascist regime.
It is only through the simpliest effects like brightness/darkness and music that the emotions in the film are displayed and transmitted. The film is also a good source of information for people who are not familiar with Iran's history.